Barbaric means uncultured, uncivilized. Semi-barbaric means almost completely uncultured, almost completely uncivilized. The prefix semi means half, as in semicircle and semi-autobiographical.. Views.
Fort Hood shooting: gunman among 4 dead. FORT HOOD, Texas - A soldier being treated for mental health issues opened fire Wednesday with a semiautomatic weapon at Fort Hood, killing three people and wounding several others before taking his own life as a military policewoman confronted him, officials said.
Nidal Malik Hasan, a U.S. Army psychiatrist, killed 13 people and injured 30 yesterdayat Fort Hood before a civilian police officer shot him four times. An Army spokesperson has announced that Hasan is in stable condition while of some of the victims are listed as critical.. But what does that mean?